DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 24 January 1907, Page 23

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.)

January 18. The annual retreat of the* diocesan 'clergy i .begins next Monday 'evening at "the Sacred Heart College, Ponsdriby. ' . . Miss 'Marie ''Nare'He has -wired to a friend here m most "'erithusiastic 'terrris of her reception" in ' Dunedin. In Auckland the Irishmen 'and Irishwomen look'forward to steehig^arid.^heaYing'her 'again. The Right s ßev. "Bishop "'O' Connor; 'of Armidale, and. the Right Rev. 1 Bishop- ©urine, of BathUrst, are due by the incoming 'San ! Francisco ~ steamer. They are,, re- ~ turning from a s Visit, to 'Rome and Ireland. . An ! fcriterfcafome'tit cbnsisting of a drama will ' be given in - 'St. 7 §6hedi'ct"s Hair this - evening^ The proceeds 'are "to be >; 'given to the parochial funds.^ " His Lordship the'^Bi'sliop 5 will be ' present.. Regular re- • hearsals have been 'held/aiad "a good' house" should. re-~ suit.

Rev. Father Clearj;,JC v SS..R. l ,^\vhp. is conducting the retreat of the clergy r "~and ' the: Teligious, will leave ; fdr Sydney on Monday, 28th inst. -sßev. Father Leonard, {G.P.,.«swhofhas7beeni .itoithexliot.' lakes, r went south last,. Saturday., ?JRev-.i. Father Francis, C.P., is due here 'at the 'end/of ,inext week, ; 'and leaves for Sydney the following -Mon^aiy. .. y

We understand that a new presbytery was blessed and opened , at Taihape. on . Sunday week.